"In Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie takes the speed-freak rush of his work with brother Benny - Good Time, Uncut Gems - and knocks it out the park with a defiantly eccentric, go-for-broke crowd pleaser built upon Timothée Chalamet's best performance since Call Me By Your Name. Chalamet absolutely slays as Marty Mauser, a charismatic young schemer from Manhattan living at home with his blue-collar Jewish parents in the early 1950s."
"Stealing cash from his dad to secure himself a spot at the world championships in New York, Mauser sails through to the finals but is beaten by a Japanese player of superior technique, causing uproar when he accuses his opponent of cheating. Meanwhile he has his head turned by Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow), a golden-age Hollywood star who is staying at the hotel he's been put up in for the tournament."
Marty Mauser is a charismatic young schemer from Manhattan living with blue-collar Jewish parents in the early 1950s. He aspires to become the first major American table tennis star, known for his bat skills and kamikaze sense of humour. He steals cash to enter the world championships in New York, reaches the finals, then loses to a technically superior Japanese player and accuses him of cheating. He becomes infatuated with Hollywood star Kay Stone while fatherhood looms with his pregnant girlfriend. Chalamet trained extensively for the role, and the film pairs frenetic sporting sequences with a bizarre gangster subplot for comic chaos.
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